NHL 24 Presentation Deep Dive

I don‘t remember in which NHL it was, but there were once some real scenes from outside of the arena or the city in the intro, that was sick.

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@Margera09 wrote:

I don‘t remember in which NHL it was, but there were once some real scenes from outside of the arena or the city in the intro, that was sick.

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The real scenes were part of the NBC broadcasting package. With NBC not broadcasting NHL games now, we can't have that in the game. As mentioned though, we are focusing more on broadcast improvements in the future.

@coolspot777 

If I understand you right, it's just longer intros and showing the goalie along with their stats?

@coolspot777 @Bruins063 

Appreciate the feedback. Thank you.

Přijde mi normální nastupovat do zápasu, když nevím, který brankář je na soupeřově straně? když se nás zeptáte, co si představujeme za kompletní prezentaci, je vidět, že absolutně netušíte, co my? 

For the online players, looks good, audio is a nice improvement for everyone but offline...

Honestly, I just don't get the logic of not having goalie stats but somehow reckoning that capturing whatever a goalscorer posts on his Instagram is far more important for offline play.

But it does sum up the direction of the game. The Flex Moment is designed to take you out of the rink action and force you into some Social Media bizarro world. Technically speaking, the transition is disjointed and unnatural. An immersion breaker. Please EA, look at the comments under the YouTube vid, the topics here or reactions on Operation Sports. The majority of commenters are not keen on this at all. Screw up the satisfaction of scoring and you kill enjoyment in any sports game.

An instant improvement would be to have kept the Flex Moment for the milestone goals only... then by their rarity, the actual scene becomes a reward, even something to look forward to. Game Design 101. Give the player an incentive to keep doing the same thing. But having it after every single goal... it quickly becomes annoying and the supposed "bunch of pixels", that's your player models EA, remains a far more palatable model.

The whole "customers demanded broadcast cam back" is disingenuous. It *was* in 23 and EA patched it out, compromising a feature customers had already paid for.  So now the original cam is back alongside the newer version. Why they couldn't have done that in the first place rather than using it as a de facto selling point 10 months later is beyond me... but maybe I've just answered my own question.